Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early in the fourth quarter, Whipple hooked up with Marty Defrancessco for a 29-yd, scoring toss that gave Brown its margin of comfort. Cornell's Joe Holland, who entered the gamne as the nation's leading rusher with 777 yards so far this season, racked up 164 more against Brown; but he fumbled twice in key situations...
Devine is but one of a fluctuating group of Republican legislators to whom Carter owes his main successes in Congress. The importance of G.O.P. support is most obvious in foreign affairs. Led by Minority Leader Howard Baker, 16 Republican Senators helped provide the one-vote margin that ensured passage of the Panama Canal treaties. Republican Senators voted 26 to 11 to authorize the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, whereas Democrats opposed...
...vote that so buoyed Ole Boy Jordan was perhaps the most impressive -and unexpected-in Carter's string of recent victories in the once recalcitrant 95th Congress. The House, by a margin of 223 to 190, fell a surprising 53 votes short of overriding Carter's veto of a $10 billion public works bill that would have funded 59 highly varied water projects scattered throughout the legislators' home districts. In a three-day publicity blitz, the President had labeled the bill "wasteful," "inflationary" and an example of "pork barrel" politics...
...lines do not want to streamline fares just for the sake of convenience. Overall, the cheaper fares have cut average ticket prices about 5% this year, while operating costs are rising 13% or 14% annually. The airlines' overall profit margin is still only 4.3%, which is well below the 5.3% average for all U.S. industry. They must earn at least as much next year as they will in 1978 in order to finance the new planes that they will need in the 1980s. Increasing fares, the most obvious answer, could prove politically difficult. So, to hold their 1979 earnings...
...deal. You were hungry, right? Well, at the time maybe it wasn't a big deal, but Gary Bosnic's 42-yard field goal with one second left, which culminated the drive, eventually turned out to be the Crimson's three point margin of victory over Colgate...